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Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books

Jess McHugh - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize Winner and New York Times Bestselling author "With her usual eye for detail and knack for smart storytelling, Jess McHugh takes a savvy and sensitive look at the 'secret origins' of the books that made and defined us ... . You won't want to miss...
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Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States

Jonathan Levy - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Today, in the midst of a new economic crisis and severe political discord, the nature of capitalism in United States is at a crossroads. Since the market crash and Great Recession of 2008, historian Jonathan Levy has been teaching a course to help his students understand everything that...
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Till the End

CC Sabathia - Roc Lit 101
Format: Hardcover

How does it feel to be born with enormous gifts, in a life shadowed by tragedy? What does it mean when the gift that opens the world for us is not enough to stop us from losing the things we love? And what new gifts do we find in that loss? Baseball had been CC Sabathia's life since...
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Willie Nelson's Letters to America

Willie Nelson - Harper Horizon
Format: Hardcover

American music legend Willie Nelson follows his bestselling books It's a Long Story and The Tao of Willie with Letters to America, a more personal and intimate book than anything he's ever written.From his opening letter "Dear America" to his "Dear Willie" epilogue,...
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Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President

Ronald C. White - Random House
Format: Book

A deeply private man, shut off even to those who worked closely with him, Abraham Lincoln often captured "his best thoughts," as he called them, in short notes to himself. He would work out his personal stances on the biggest issues of the day, never expecting anyone to see these...

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At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice

Rebecca Rosenberg - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Wealthy, beautiful, and brilliant, Shele Danishefsky was on the cusp of total fulfillment. Having conquered Wall Street, she was eager to build a family with her much younger husband, beguiling and handsome Ivy League graduate Rod Covlin. But when Rod's hidden vices, from high stakes...
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Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life

Robert D. Ballard - National Geographic
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The legendary explorer of Titanic and Lusitania looks back on his life behind his famous exploits and unveils a major new discovery on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Titanic find.Best known for finding the wreck of the Titanic, celebrated adventurer Robert Ballard has a lifetime...
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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Kate Masur - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, north and south, in the decades before the Civil War.The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many...

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The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

Nick Lloyd - Liveright
Format: Book

A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare.The Western Front evokes images of hardship and sacrifice, of young, mud-spattered men in water-logged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts by a few feet of dirt....

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A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War

Albert Marrin - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In twentieth century America, no power--and no threat--loomed larger than the communist superpower of the Soviet Union. America saw in the dreams of the Soviet Union the overthrow of the US government, and the end of democracy and freedom. Meanwhile, the Communist Party of the United States...
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The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915

Jon Grinspan - ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Book

. Democracy was broken. Or that was what many Americans believed in the decades after the Civil War. Shaken by economic and technological disruption, they sought safety in aggressive, tribal partisanship. The results were the loudest, closest, most violent elections in U.S. history,...

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Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India

Suchitra Vijayan - Melville House
Format: Hardcover

Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. Yet most of us don't understand it, or the violent history still playing out there. In fact, India as we know...
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Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

Danny Trejo - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

On screen, Danny Trejo the actor is a baddie who has been killed at least a hundred times. He's been shot, stabbed, hanged, chopped up, squished by an elevator, and once, was even melted into a bloody goo. Off screen, he's a hero beloved by recovery communities and obsessed fans...
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Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War

Jeff Shesol - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race.If the United States couldn't catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War -- a perilous time...
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

Julian Sancton - Crown
Format: Book

In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica. But de Gerlache's plans to be first to the magnetic...

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Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero

Amanda Kloots - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In March 2020, Broadway star and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero was hospitalized for what he and his wife, Amanda Kloots, believed to be a severe case of pneumonia. Entering the hospital, they had every reason to believe that Nick - a young father and otherwise healthy man - would return...
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A Chosen Destiny: My Story

Drew McIntyre - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

From a young age, Drew McIntyre dreamed of becoming WWE Champion and following in the footsteps of his heroes Stone Cold Steve Austin and Undertaker. With his parents' support, he trained and paid his dues, proving himself to tiny crowds in the UK's Butlin circuit. At age twenty-two,...
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War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion

Jeff Guinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and of American undesirables (Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Manson, Jim Jones) tells the riveting story of Pancho Villa's bloody raid on a small US border town that sparked a violent conflict with the US. The "Punitive Expedition"...
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Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery

Forrest Galante - Hachette Books
Format: Book

Very few individuals can truthfully say that their work impacts every person on earth. Forrest Galante is one of them. As a wildlife biologist and conservationist, Galante devotes his life to studying, rediscovering, and protecting our planet's amazing lifeforms. Part memoir, part...

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The Man I Knew: The Amazing Story of George H. W. Bush's Post-Presidency

Jean Becker - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency, including being at his side when he died and subsequently facing the challenge-and great honor-of being in charge of his state funeral. Full of heart...

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The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero

Peter S. Canellos - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. Almost a century after his death, it was John Marshall Harlan's words that helped end segregation, and gave us our civil rights and our modern economic freedom. But his legacy...
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Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture Forever

L. Jon Wertheim - Mariner Books
Format: Book

The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN's rise to media dominance as the country's premier sports network and the first...

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The Windsor Diaries: My Childhood with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

Alathea Fitzalan Howard - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Like so many others in Great Britain, young Alathea Fitzalan Howard's life was turned upside down by the start of the Second World War. Sent to stay with her grandfather at the historic Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park, Alathea found the affection she so craved through her close...
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When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer

Curtis Wilkie - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK organization responsible for a brutal civil rights-era killing.By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known in south Mississippi. A light-skinned Black man, he was a farmer, grocery store owner,...

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Steve Kerr: A Life

Scott Howard-Cooper - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In this in-depth biography, an award-winning sports journalist assesses the life and career of Steve Kerr, the championship-winning basketball player and head coach of the record-breaking Golden State Warriors.Few individuals have had a career as storied - and improbable - as Steve Kerr....
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942

Max Hastings - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operation Pedestal, the British action to save its troops from starvation on Malta - an action-packed tale of courage, fortitude, loss, and triumph against all odds.In 1940, Hitler had two choices...
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House of Sticks: A Memoir

Ly Tran - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

'Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she and her family immigrate from a small town along the Mekong river in Vietnam to a two-bedroom railroad apartment in Queens. Ly's father, a former lieutenant in the South Vietnamese army, spent nearly a decade as a POW, and their resettlement...
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Forever Frida: A Celebration of the Life, Art, Loves, Words, and Style of Frida Kahlo

Kathy Cano-Murillo - Adams Media
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Revel in the enduring legacy of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo - from the self-portraits, to the flower crown, to her iconic eyebrows - with this fun and commemorative book!With her colorful style, dramatic self-portraits, hardscrabble backstory, and verve for life, Frida Kahlo remains a modern...
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Elizabeth and Monty: The Untold Story of Their Intimate Friendship

Charles Casillo - Kensington
Format: Hardcover

Yet the relationship between these two figures--one a dazzling, larger-than-life star, the other hugely talented yet fatally troubled--has never truly been explored until now. "Monty, Elizabeth likes me, but she loves you." --Richard BurtonWhen Elizabeth Taylor was cast opposite...
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Above the Reich: Deadly Dogfights, Blistering Bombing Raids, and Other War Stories from the Greatest American Air Heroes of World War II, in Their Own Words

Colin Heaton - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover

They are voices lost to time. Beginning in the late 1970s, five veteran airmen sat for private interviews. Decades after the guns fell silent, they recounted in vivid detail the most dangerous missions that made the difference in the war. Ed Haydon dueled with the deadliest of German aces--and...
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The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third Reich

Daniel P. Bolger - Dutton Caliber
Format: Book

Two months after D-Day, the Allies found themselves in a stalemate in Normandy, having suffered enormous casualties attempting to push through hedgerow country. Troops were spent, and American tankers, lacking the tactics and leadership to deal with the terrain, were losing their spirit....

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Hokusai: A Graphic Biography

Giuseppe Lantazi - Laurence King Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A stunning visual biography of one of Japan's most famous historical artists, this book beautifully illustrates the story of Katsushika Hokusai.Enter the world of Katsushika Hokusai - the enigmatic creator of Japanese art's all-time most iconic image. This vivid graphic biography...
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Hear Us Speak: Letters from Arab Women

Suzan Kanoo - ForbesBooks
Format: Hardcover

To be a woman is a gift. But that gift does not come without challenges. Historically, women around the globe have fought to be heard. The stories of Arab women in particular have often been veiled in mystery.In Hear Us Speak, Suzy Kanoo lifts the veil. As a CEO, Suzy has enjoyed great...
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The Age of Decadence: A History of Britain: 1880-1914

Simon Heffer - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A richly detailed history of Britain at its imperial zenith, revealing the simmering tensions and explosive rivalries beneath the opulent surface of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.The popular memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly,...
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